Dalton v. Indiana Refrigerator Lines, Inc.

How later courts describe this case

• state responsible under exception to Ker-Frisbie doctrine for “barbarities inflicted ... by persons who can be characterized as paid agents of the United States.”
• “[t]he fact that [a bank officer] granted the loan before the [false] statement was submitted is irrelevant since, as the defendant concedes, materiality does not depend upon actual reliance”
• It was within the judge's discretion to have a tape of all instructions replayed in response to a jury inquiry and to allow the jurors to take notes while the tape was played.
• materiality is determined by capacity to influence